Borneo Divers
The fully equipped dive center of Borneo Dives is located just a few steps from the beach and only a short stroll from your room. It is designed for your convenience. You will find the dive schedule here and plenty of space for rinsing your gear. If you aren’t travelling with your own dive gear, there is plenty of top quality equipment at a reasonable rental price. The dive station has plenty of space to hang your gear to dry. You won’t have to carry a lot of heavy gear around either. The friendly dive staff will have tanks ready for you on the boat.
Dive Service
Borneo Divers has a fleet of fast modern speedboats. They ensure that whether you are going to one of the macro sites surrounding Mabul, or to the famous dive sites of nearby Sipadan, your transportation will be fast, safe and comfortable.
3 boat dives a day are offered with a professional divemaster and unlimited jetty house reef dives. Boat dives can be a combination of Mabul, Kapalai, Si Amil or Mantabuan. Diving at Sipadan will be on one of these days.
The dive shop offers various PADI dive qualifications. Nitrox is not available.
Dive area
Diving around Mabul and Kapalai is totally different from diving around Sipadan. All dive sites are rather shallow and coral growth is rather sparse. But the sites around Mabul and Kapalai are treasure troves for all kinds of macro rarities. Ghostpipefish, anglerfish, leafy scorpionfish, mandarin fish, ribbon eels, sea horses, plenty of different nudibranchs and other curious sea creature are often seen here.
Sipadan is the top of an underwater mountain, which reaches straight up from the depth of the Celebes Sea. On these dive sites you find superbly covered drops, great biodiversity and regular sightings of large fish. No dive is complete without a turtle and a white tip reef shark. Special attractions are a school of barracudas and of humphead parrot fish. Because of the exposed nature of the site, encounters with hammerheads and other large sharks are possible.
